WTF! SPIDER-MAN COMIC SELLS FOR $1.1 MILLION!

"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" may be a financial disaster on Broadway, but the friendly neighborhood superhero just set a record windfall for one comic book collector.

A private collector sold a near-mint issue of Amazing Fantasy No. 15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, Monday for a whopping $1.1 million -- a record for a single comic book from the so-called Silver Age of the 1960s.

The issue sold for 12 cents when it hit newsstands in July 1962.

At that time, writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby introduced Peter Parker -- a high school nerd who gets superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive spider -- but the publisher, Marty Goodman, thought so little of the character that he relegated him to the last issue of an already canceled title. Even the creators didn't think the superhero would catch on, much less become the star of a movie franchise that has earned $2.5 billion worldwide to date, Lee said when reached by email.

"I guess the moral is, never throw anything away like I foolishly did years ago," Lee told the Daily News. "Perhaps if you save this email message for another 50 years or so, it'll send your kids to college!"

The sale price for Amazing Fantasy No. 15, however, couldn't surpass the record for the highest-priced comic book in a single bound. That honor goes to Action Comics No. 1, Superman's 1938 debut issue and the crown jewel of the Golden Age, which sold for $1.5 million last year.

"The sale of this book crushed all previous records [for Silver Age comics]," ComicConnect.com CEO Stephen Fishler, on whose site both record sales were auctioned, said in a statement. "Up until today's $1.1 million sale, the record sale price of a comic book from this era was $250,000."



SOURCE